Monday, June 2, 2008

The morning rise

I got up to feed the baby at 6:30 and found the dough bursting out of the bowl. I punched it down right away and after feeding the baby, I kneaded it, rolled it and formed round loaves. I put it in the oven on my way out the door for work and anxiously await the report on the outcome -- and the taste test this afternoon.

I've found that it takes about 45 minutes in a 350 oven. We can't put a cold pizza stone in a hot oven or it will crack. The options are to heat the stone and then put the loaves on it or put the loaves and the stone into a cold oven. I do the latter and it works fine.

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